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Press your menu button and find the option to bookmark this page (a star icon for some browsers). WASHINGTON – Latino gang members were hunting for black people in the Harbor Gateway community of Los Angeles. Cheryl Green, 14, was on her scooter, talking to friends when a hail of bullets killed the 8th-grader and injured several other black youngsters. Federal prosecutors last year charged members of a Latino gang with conducting a violent campaign to drive blacks out of the Florence-Firestone neighborhood in L.A. Perhaps the highest profile example of what some believe to be a racial hate crime was the shooting death of Jamiel Shaw II, a promising high school football player killed near his Los Angeles home in March. Brown compared what is happening in the streets of his state to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In May, racial tensions between blacks and Hispanics erupted at Dominguez High School in Compton, Calif. Among 10- to 24-year olds, homicide is the leading cause of death for blacks and the second leading cause of death for Hispanics. He warns if the attacks are not contained, they could trigger the formation of violent Hispanic gangs. Matthews said African Americans are targeting Hispanics who are vulnerable because they do not speak English and often do not report crimes to the police out of fear their immigration status will be questioned, he said. Blacks are responsible for robbing, assaulting and raping Hispanics, as well as invading their homes, Matthews said. Matthews said some immigrants do not trust the police in their home countries and the mindset travels with them here. If the issue is not dealt with soon, Matthews said, the city could face the worst crime it has ever seen when Hispanic victims or their relatives resort to forming notoriously violent gangs, like MS-13, to defend their community.
Aida Garcia, director of social services for nonprofit La Comunidad Hispana, said she was not surprised to hear about the activity in Coatesville. Meanwhile, last week in North Carolina, the head of the Latin Kings gang held a news conference to call on other gang members to stop the violence. Prison tattoos are usually worn by members of various prison gangs for whom these body arts carry important symbolic meanings. Check out the images of prison tattoos presented in this site to get an idea of how they look like. Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view. Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc.
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A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver. In March this year El Salvador's most violent gangs - the Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang - agreed a truce. The Mara Salvatrucha gang originated in the Pico-Union neighbourhood of Los Angeles in the 1980s.
Also abbreviated as Mara, MS-13 or MS, there are conflicting versions of how the Mara Salvatrucha got their name - a common explanation is that 'Mara' means 'gang' in Spanish, 'Salva' for El Salvador, and 'trucha' is a slang word meaning 'stay alert'. The 18th Street gang started in the Rampart district of LA and has grown into a large multi-ethnic, transnational criminal organisation made up of hundreds of autonomous gangs.
Like the Mara Salvatrucha, facial tattoos are a common characteristic of 18th Street gang members in El Salvador. The Philippine president-elect says he will seek to reintroduce the death penalty and give security forces shoot-to-kill powers in certain circumstances. But the race-motivated carnage has only increased since then, say law-enforcement authorities from coast to coast – with Hispanic gangs targeting blacks and black gangs, reciprocating as their communities are increasingly surrounded by the exploding population of Hispanics, much of it fueled by illegal immigration.
Blacks understand it is not safe to cross over to the Hispanic side and Hispanics know it is not safe to cross over to the black side.
Pedro Espinoza, 19, a Latino gang member and illegal immigrant, stands accused of the homicide. He also called on the entertainment industry to stop glorifying the violent gang lifestyle in music and movies. The Justice Department reported that in 2005, the homicide rate for black males, 18-25, was just over 102 per 100,000, and only 12.5 deaths per 100,000 for their white counterparts. Therefore, Matthews said, police only know about a fraction of the crimes against Hispanics.
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As a result, the murder rate of this small Central American country has plummeted - but can the peace last?On a Sunday morning, the main street into Majucla, a poor community in the north of San Salvador, looks like any other. It is said the gang's initial purpose was to protect Salvadoran immigrants from more established LA gangs. Today the gang has a presence all over the United States, Canada, Mexico and Central America.
And they probably buried him in one of their clandestine cemeteries that they have around the country.

While statistics show most of the violence in minority communities is black on black or Hispanic on Hispanic, the trend is shifting, according to many law enforcement officials who say they see an upsurge in racial violence. Alternatively, if that person is not a true gang member and only a poser, his or her tattoo symbol will be destroyed or burnt off the skin.
It is a dirt road, there are food stalls, and people walk up and down, many dressed for church. He also has a smaller 18 tattooed near his left eye and the letters BK tattooed behind his left ear. It was facilitated by a Catholic bishop and a former rebel commander of the left-wing guerrillas - someone who battled the military in El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s. The Surenos, a well known Latin gang from Mexico is known to operate from Southern California.
The truce has been in place now for over eight months, and the murder rate has fallen to around five a day. The [FMLN] government of El Salvador insists it has "facilitated" not "negotiated" the truce.
Claudia - not her real name - has not seen her teenage son since he stepped out to buy some food one night in October.
Other tattoos worn by this gang include the letter M, EME, MM, X3, XIII, 213 and Tres Puntos. The man generally believed to be the brains behind the strategy is the minister of justice and security, Gen David Munguia Payes."We found in research that more than 90% of murders were gang-related. The Aryan Brotherhood tattoo or AB is worn by a group of Neo-Nazi white men who have a strong faith in the ideas and beliefs of Hitler.
Now the gangs aren't at war, they don't need to enforce recruitment in schools, so the number of students being murdered is down too," Gen Payes says. I think it's good to enjoy some peace and tranquillity - not just in neighbourhoods like ours, but in the whole country." Mendez's sentiments are echoed by the leaders of his once-sworn enemies. At the prison of Cojutepeque, around 900 18th Street gang members occupy a jail built for 300 men. Jose Heriberto Enriquez, who is serving time for murder, was one of the leaders who sat down in meetings with leaders from the Mara Salvatrucha.